Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 3

So the food chain is really a circle: the sun feeds the grass, the grass feeds the rabbit, the rabbit feeds the fox, and when the fox dies, beetles, worms and bacteria turn it back into soil for the grass.

Who acts: food chain, sun, grass, rabbit, fox, beetles · What happens: be, feed, die, turn · To what, where: circle, grass, rabbit, fox

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food chain, sun, grass, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	8 circle	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chain	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 circle	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 circle	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 circle	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 feeds	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feeds	nsubj
12	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 circle	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feeds	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feeds	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feeds	nsubj
18	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 circle	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rabbit	det
20	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feeds	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feeds	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rabbit	det
23	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feeds	nsubj
24	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeds	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fox	det
26	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feeds	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dies	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 turn	cc
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 dies	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fox	det
31	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dies	nsubj
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 turn	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beetles	punct
34	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 turn	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 worms	punct
36	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 beetles	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bacteria	cc
38	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 beetles	conj
39	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeds	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 turn	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	39 turn	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	43 soil	case
43	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 back	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 grass	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 grass	det
46	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 turn	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 circle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the food chain	a circle			tree rules
2	feed	present	the sun	the grass			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Recipient
3	feed	present	the grass		the rabbit		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient
4	feed	present	the rabbit		the fox		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
5	die	present	the fox				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	turn	present	beetles and worms and bacteria	rabbit		for the grass	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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